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Message-ID: <8c20196c-f208-464b-91cd-c87c22f83693@kernel.dk>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2026 10:38:10 -0700
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To: Harshit Mogalapalli <harshit.m.mogalapalli@...cle.com>,
 Qingyue Zhang <chunzhennn@...com>
Cc: io-uring@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 Suoxing Zhang <aftern00n@...com>, cve@...nel.org,
 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] io_uring/kbuf: fix signedness in this_len calculation

On 1/20/26 10:33 AM, Harshit Mogalapalli wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a question regarding the Fixes tag for this.
> 
> On 27/08/25 17:13, Qingyue Zhang wrote:
>> When importing and using buffers, buf->len is considered unsigned.
>> However, buf->len is converted to signed int when committing. This
>> can lead to unexpected behavior if buffer is large enough to be
>> interpreted as a negative value. Make min_t calculation unsigned.
>>
>> Co-developed-by: Suoxing Zhang <aftern00n@...com>
>> Signed-off-by: Suoxing Zhang <aftern00n@...com>
>> Signed-off-by: Qingyue Zhang <chunzhennn@...com>
> 
> 
> In the upstream merged commit:
> 
> commit c64eff368ac676e8540344d27a3de47e0ad90d21
> Author: Qingyue Zhang <chunzhennn@...com>
> Date:   Wed Aug 27 19:43:39 2025 +0800
> 
>     io_uring/kbuf: fix signedness in this_len calculation
> 
>     When importing and using buffers, buf->len is considered unsigned.
>     However, buf->len is converted to signed int when committing. This can
>     lead to unexpected behavior if the buffer is large enough to be
>     interpreted as a negative value. Make min_t calculation unsigned.
> 
>     Fixes: ae98dbf43d75 ("io_uring/kbuf: add support for incremental buffer consumption")
>     Co-developed-by: Suoxing Zhang <aftern00n@...com>
>     Signed-off-by: Suoxing Zhang <aftern00n@...com>
>     Signed-off-by: Qingyue Zhang <chunzhennn@...com>
>     Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/tencent_4DBB3674C0419BEC2C0C525949DA410CA307@qq.com
>     Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
> 
> diff --git a/io_uring/kbuf.c b/io_uring/kbuf.c
> index f2d2cc319faa..81a13338dfab 100644
> --- a/io_uring/kbuf.c
> +++ b/io_uring/kbuf.c
> @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ static bool io_kbuf_inc_commit(struct io_buffer_list *bl, int len)
>                 u32 this_len;
> 
>                 buf = io_ring_head_to_buf(bl->buf_ring, bl->head, bl->mask);
> -               this_len = min_t(int, len, buf->len);
> +               this_len = min_t(u32, len, buf->len);
>                 buf->len -= this_len;
>                 if (buf->len) {
>                         buf->addr += this_len;
> 
> 
> I see the Fixes tag documented is "Fixes: ae98dbf43d75
> ("io_uring/kbuf: add support for incremental buffer consumption")"
>
> I think a more accurate Fixes tag is "Fixes: cf9536e550dd
> ("io_uring/kbuf: enable bundles for incrementally consumed buffers")"
> , Reason: Commit cf9536e550dd243a1681fdbf804221527da20a80 is the first
> to move incremental-buffer accounting into the new helper
> io_kbuf_inc_commit(), introducing this_len = min_t(int, len,
> buf->len);. The signed int here is exactly what
> c64eff368ac676e8540344d27a3de47e0ad90d21 corrects.

I took a look, and indeed, it is mis-tagged. The correct fixes tag
should've been for cf9536e550dd.

-- 
Jens Axboe